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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-05
Mend Yourself.

Once upon time there was school
master placed over new school. His
pride was aroused, and he wanted to
make that Just the very best school
that ever was. He pondered over it a
good while, and then he concluded
that the best way to get at his OBJECT
self improvement in the pupils. So,
one day, he talked to them quite ear
nestly; and finally he said, thinking
he had made the subject very plain to
them all: Now, boys, L believe
there's just one way to do this thing.
If each one of you will make up his
mind to mend one boy of his faults,
the whole school will be improved in
q very short time"
"All right, SIR" spoke up little jim
my Eaton, who had been very much
interested in the discussion "I'll
mend Jack Wyeth." The whole
school laughed aloud, for it seemed
funny that the only boy who had not
understood what the teacher meant
was the one to be so eager to answer.
But, boys, I wonder how many OF
YOU, if your name had been Jimmy
Eaton, would have made up your
mind to mend Jimmy Eaton instead
of Jack Wyeth. 1t is so easy to try to
mend other folks, and SO much pleas
anter to note other peoples faults ill.,
stead of our own. If you see faults in
your school-mates, don't talk about it
or them, but say to yourself: THAT
looks pretty bad in Jack. / wonder if
I do anything like that?" If, on SELF
examination, you find that you do,
just struggle your best to mend it.
Or, if you find you haven't that par
ticular fault, pick out some other from
your own; and the chances are ten to
one that, by the time you have correct
ed yours he will have corrected his.
especially if he notices you trying to
break yourself of the habit, whatever
it may be.-Golden Days
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-05

The poor suicide who exclaimed, as
he leaped into the death-dealing wa
ter, "keep away from horse-racing and
pool-roors," gave valuable lesson if
It were needed by frequenters of such
places. They dream not Of danger
from the contact with evil. They hear
of the fortunes which are gained in a
single season from gambling, and ig-
more the losses which are more plenti-
full. They indulge the responsible
mania until they issue in poverty and
perhaps in self-destructiOn.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-05
CoMns at Mt. Carmel.

T w. SIGN has coffins ut Mt. Carmel in the
u. care Of w. r. POWELL. The HEARSE
will be sent from Abbeville when desired.
Jan. s. 1887. tt
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-05

If one should attempt to weigh the
past miseries occasioned by war, and
to estimate the results of permanent
peace on the production of wealth, on
morals and religion; that is, on the
Improvement of society, on the COM
fort and happiness of man, and the
perfection of the human character; a
clear view of these consequences could
not fail to give unceasing energy to
the tolls of philanthropy in this cause.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-05

"Have you heard why the English
dude is not wanted in America ?'
"No: why?" Because the Yankee
dood'll do"
Do to-day's duty, fight to-day's
temptation, and do not weaken and
distract yourself by looking forward to
things which you cannot see, and
could not understand if you saw them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-10-05
"And There Shall be No More Curse"
REV. NNlI: y.

No curse, And can it truly be
There is q land forever free
From ali that taints, that mars, that blights
From toilsome days and wakeful nights?
Whose peaceful mansions neverknow
The tread Of death, the wall of woe:
Whore care shall ne'er invade the breast,
Nor doubt nor fear disturb its rest?
A land. upon whose sky serene
No dark ming cloud is ever seen:
Where naught can change, and nausht oe
cay,
And every tear is wiped away?
Where sins defling touch no more
Shall reach the soul, but 1t SHAH soar,
Enraptured, to that awful height
Where God unveils himself in light:
Where those who gain that happy place,
Bask in His smile, behold His face,
And ever In His Image grow
AS cycling ages come and go?
o Blessed Land! for thee sigh,
To win thee, 1T were gain to die:
For they who tread thy radiant shore,
Sorrow, and sin, and die no more.
IS. X. Cox.
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w. Joel Smith & Son.

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The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19

John jacob Aston was compelled 40 one
time TO repair 90 P.ris, where Doe could
avail himself for a physical nirmity OF
the assistance Of the renowned surgeon
Baron Dupuytren. The latter thoroughly
restored him and advised him 10 ride out
every day lie frequently accompanied
his patient during these rides. one day
while they were out together Aston ap
peared quite indIsposed 20 talk Not a
word could be got ont of him, and no length
Dupuytren declared that Ast0r must De
suffering from some secret pain or trouble.
lie pressed him and worried him until
finally the millionaire loo-ed his tongue.
look ye, baron, how lrightfu this IS
have here ia the hands OF my banker 40
Paris about 1000 900 francs and cannot
manage without great effort 20 get more
than , . per cent per annum on &C.
Now this morning l received letter from
my son in New York informing me That
there the best acceptances are 40 II 70
per cent. q month is is not enough &c
enrage manY'-DetrOit Free Press.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19
HALF A DOZEN FISH STORIES.

A seventy-six pound catfish was caught m
the Cumberland river at Palmyra, Tenn.
Menhaden drove immense schools Of weak
fish into a gully in front Of the bathing
houses at Anglesea n j.. and wagon loads
were taken out.
A lime sloop OF Rockland, Me, was fol-
lowed by d shark, and one Of the crow threw
the fish a lump Of quicklime. The shark
swallowed it at one gulp, and soon died IN
great agony.
In the center of the dining room OF the
Slevinsky Bazaar hotel, Of Moscow, is d large
fountain filed with fish, from which when
you order one, the waiter catches 1t alive
with a dipnet before your eyes
While George Lindley was working on the
banks OF the Sangamon river, near Decatur,
His, he pulled a hollow log from the river
and found in il a catfish three feet six inches
long which weighed forty-two pounds.
One Of the ugliest Of the inny tribe is the
toadlsh, a shiny creature not even an enthus-
last could venture 10 touch. The enormous
mouth extends IN a semi-circle from side 10
side and is the most prominent feature Of the
soft, wedge shaped BODY Eho colors are ID
defined aud impress one with their dirtineSs,
adding 70 the disagreeable effect. Repulsive
looking as the toadish is it is said TO mani
fest more care for its young than IS usual
among fishes redeeIning its appearance by
is moral character
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19
Tokio,- PrlnclnaI street.

TO stroll down the principal street of
Toxic of au evening IS H species of liberal
education Long lines of gagly lighted
shops cmmmed with wares 90 captNate
alike the novice and the c0uno.sseur look
out upOn ann equally endlc,. succession az
torchlit booths. that display % happy med
ley OF old curlos 8Ld new conCelts. Here
the very latest thing iu inventions. %
gutta percha rat tlat for some reason
best known to the lender scampers about
squeaking with mlm.uy Co shame the
original. hold. am admlrng crowd spell
bound with mingled trepidat0n aud de-
light
There native z0etr0pe, ingenious round
of pleasure, whose top, fashioned after tue
type OF turbine wheel enables % candle
in the center 20 supply both illumination
and motive power 40 the same time. af
fords t0 as many as can find room on its
circumference peep go the composite am
tics of cOusecutNely pictured monkey in
the act of jumping box. Then again. Do
Is some flower stand ~ the growth Of
whose shrubs art has dared even 10 inter
fere with nature. and beg0tten forms
which the parent plant would fail 90 rec
Ognize, while opposite this show is "a
booth that among itg other cur.oeiues.
has for sale little microscopes with legs.
Thus from one attraction to another You
wander on for miles, carried along with
the tide of pleasure seekers 10 q sort Of
realized dream The Atlantic
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19
EDUCATIONAL GLEANlNGS.

Colorado shows the highest average paid to
women teachers.
In West Virginia the average OF men and
women teachers wages IS the same.
The winter meeting Of the National Educa-
tion association will be held Gt Washington,
Feb. 1915, ISIS.
Harvard college is at high tide OF fortune,
having received no less than s3,Opo,Op In
gifts during the last five months,
The great telescope OF Dearborn university,
Chicago. has passed into the possession OF the
Northwestern university Of Illinois.
The fact is shown that a very large major
ity Of all cases OF myopia, near sishtedness,
have their origin during the period OF school
life
II is expected that the new fire proof build
ing of Syracuse university, 20 contain the
Won Ranke library, viii be completed within
a year.
A school for the teaching Of the Volapuk is
70 be opened by tho Bavarian minister of
worship at the Luitpold gymnasium in
Munich.
It is in Boston that fifty.ady teachers unite
IN securing an Instructor anu letluieli utFol-
ing their spare hours 70 hard study Of psy-
chology
The election Of Miss Alice NJ Longfelow
10 a place on the school board at Cambridge
Mass, is viewed with much satisfaction in
that section.
The first college president in this country
Of Scandinavian origin is Edward Olson, re-
Gently elected TO the presidency Of the Uni
yersity of Dakota.
10 was on account of his rigorous treatment
of students in the gymnasium that VI. Della
noff, the Russian minister Of public instruc-
ton, was dismissed
OF the thirty-eight students matriculated
on All Saints Day 40 the General Episcopal
seminary, two are Of the colored race one
being a son of Bishop Holly, of HaytL
The school of industrial art in Philadelphia
is 90 be benefited by theproceeds Of a festival,
arranged TO be- held 40 Horticultural hall un-
der the direction of Mrs T. D. Gillespie
The building for the Ramona Indian Girls
school, 40 Santa Fe, y. n, commemorating
Teien Hunt Jackson viii cost $4,000 being
arranged TO accommodate 80 pupils.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

sninburnes new volume is called 10
crlnen
Max Muller is to publish Biographies Of
Words"
Charles Egbert Craddockn will spend
m0s' of this winter in Boston.
Robert Louis stevenson's fayorite novel is
Dumas "Vicomte de Bragelonne."
Marion Crawford. with his wife daugh-
ter of Col Berdan, is about 10 settle in Wash
ington, d. C.
The Turks are coming forward IN history
Lieut. Col Talat Bey has written the Bat
lies of Pevna.'
The Woman's World, 10 be published in
London under the editorship Of Oscar Wilde,
promises to show high order Of typOTaphi-
ga. and illustrative art
To is said that once in happy Finland the
average publication of books was one yearly.
In 1855 the average had increased 10 ten. But
the world is growing worse and the yearly
yield numbers 90 volumes
"The Frozen Pirate, Harper g. Brothers,
Uy W. Clark Russell, is a Franklin Square
library edition of one of the authors clever
est and most readable sea tales, with the new
feature Of illustrations byprocess engravings
from drawings by Macnah
The DOnnelly-Shakospeare incident has In
duced Messs Funk q Wagnalls ~ republish
"a fac simile edition of the 1923 folio edition
of Shakespeare, on which the Doune.ly cipher
is based The reprint is made from pho
tograpnie reproduction of the original re-
duced 10 crown octave size, and Is now IN
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19

The trial 40 Tisza-Eszlar is probably
sufficiently well in mind 70 serve as "a type
of the false evidence given by children.
Dr. A. Motel has collected q number Of
similar cases. and shows very distinctly
that the children ia question are quite
generally the subjects OF morbid ten
denotes Frequently they are tine offspring
Of a degenerate stock and are characterized
by weakness of Will and love for
excitement The analogy between these
suggestions accepted and elaborated by
these children i'm "a waking condition, and
precisely the same phenomena i'm hypnotic
states Is evident. Dr. N0tet suggests
several hints by which such testimony can
be prevented from imposing upon the
courts, aud urges that a careful physician
be summoned when any such suspicious
testimony by child is depOsed. lt illus
trates anew the close connection between
responsibility and nervous elections as
well as between the doctors study and the
court s dictum. Science.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19
THEATRICAL GOSSIP

Ellen Terry Is a. years old
Bronson Howard, theplayFright, has gone
% London.
A. C. Gunter BIAS dramatiled his novel.
Mr. Barnes, Of New York
Coouelin, the French actor, is not making
great success on the English stage.
Kate Caxton, having given MARY War
u,r" o. trial has decided 40 abandon it
Frederick Warde, on Nov >, viii make
bis first appearance IN Boston as a star at
the Hollis Street theatre.
Helen Barry is thinking Of returning 10
this country 20 gather a few more shekels.
Sho lost several thousands or dollars last
season.
Nine. Janish Countess d'ArcoD the ac-
tross. is out of an engagement, and Is said 10
be living IN New York IN reduced circum-
stances.
While in Chicago Modjeska visited the
Conservatory and IN well considered adj
dress 20 the pupils gave them not little
wholesome counsel as % the future for which
they are preparing.
A perfect avalanche OF operetta has fallen
upon the unfortunate city of Vienna More
than thirty works of that order are awaiting
a hearing. This concourse OF small music
has resulted in one curious circumstance, for
three authors have chosen the same subject,
"The Queen of a Day, an old story which
bad been previously set by Adam. A CORE
Vondent heard this opera, "Ia Refine dun
Jour, at Bouiogne-sur-4ier in October, 1910.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19
A BLIND MAN ON MEMORY.
The sightless Pupil Possesses One Vital
Advantage over His Companions.


From some open letters Of peculiar In
terest 10 the blind by one Of their number
we quote the following: AS partial com
pensation. i'm the midst Of his many dis
couragements, the sightless pupil possesses
one vital advantage over his companions.
His memory. accustomed 10 seize and MS.
simulate definitions and miscellaneous in-
formation az a single hearing, acquires
both a marvellous alertncss and q phenOm-
email retontive capacity which enable him
10 master certain branches of study with
singular ease and rapIdity Deprived of
books and without any very ready and
reliable method of making notes be OBJ
tains habit. often enyied by the seeing
Of appropriating instantaneously anything
addressed 10 his intellect through his
hearing Hence the proycrblal.y good
memory Of the blind person. His mind Is
his memorandum book, always at hand
and always open.
TO the present writer who never re-
members having a lesson in anything
read over To him more than twice. nothing
Is more strange and more amusing than "a
room full of school children, with fingers
crammed I'M their ears, buzzing over a
lesson OF three pages for the fifteenth
time Equally iucomprehensible is DO 90
see a man making "a note of single adj
dress. or "a lady referring 90 shopping
list Such observations force one t0 the
conclusion that the art of writing. in
valuable as IL is, has been disastrous t0
the human memory People have grown
so TO rely ON "a piece of white paper covered
with black scratches. that if this Doe lost
OF misplaced, they are reduced almost t0
the condition of creatures without in-
tellect
80 marked is the advantage Of the
blind in this respect as almost 20 atone
for their extra dificultics DO others. that
IS, the sightIess pupil will acquire scien-
tifc and philosophical studies with O
rapidity which will countcrbalnce The
greater amount of time demanded hy his
less facile methods of writing ont exercises
In linguistic and cIpher.ug boo matho-
matlcal branches. $50 that In taking the
regular course 100 academy or university
he wiz require all boo all, neither more
time nor more labor than the average
student
"Of NOT less value in after life Is this
extraordinarily trained and developed
memory 10 enables the blind t0 derive
from lectures. conversation and general
reading ten times the benefit of others on
whose minds single mention OF facts and
thoughts make little Cr u0 impression
Thus the law of compensation is seen
working in all things making good On
one hand. approximately at least what is
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19

During the past fiscal year silver dol
lars and silver certificates took the place
of legal tender ones. National bank notes
have steadily continued to be Withdrawn.
According to Il statement Of the Treas
urer Of the United States the surplus rev.
enue for the fiscal year was SlO3,4I,007,
being an increase over the pending year
of $9514,5O9. The largest increase in
revenue was in that from customs; the
largest increase in expenditure was on
account Of Indians and pensions, while
there was a considerable decrease in in.
terest on the public debt.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19

The Canadian Fisheries difficulty to
be submitted to a special Commission
ought to deal fairly with the subject and
leave nothing to be made a subject OF
dispute afterwards. edo not claim the
right TO fish in Canadian waters but we
do claim that when we give our vessels
permits 10 touch and trade at British
ports under international agreements
that have been entered into, that privilege
shall be accorded TO tbem, although they
be engaged In open sea fisheries that are
common to all the world. The enemies Of
the Administration have jumped al the
conclusion that the commission which is
10 meet at Washington has for its chief
object the giving away of the Gloucester
fishermen, or, rs it is more grandy ex-
pressed, "a surrender of vital American
interests" There is not the slightest
ground for this apprehension, even con.
ceding that the half.cent duty on
mackerel IS vital American in
terest. We fancy that the commits
sion will have nothing to do with
that which Is not an international CUES
tion.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19
THE COUPON FIGHT.

"If tho supreme court ucCiuc 'nc oon'
tempt cases against Virginia, we shall 90
all we can 10 aid the Legislature to de-
wise new scheme that will pass mus
ter before that august tribunal. -Dis
patch.
We understand, then, that decision
against the State will not affect the policy
of obstruction, and that citizens VINO
undertake to pay taxes with coupons
will still be harassed out Of their legal
right to do so II any scheme can DC ue-
vised OF course scheme can be de-
vised, but all the same the supreme
Court will decide that the scheme Is un-
constitutional If I, aims at depriying
the citizen Of right that the Supreme
Court has decided he has
Does the Dspatch remember that IN the
trial Of the recent cases before Judge
Bond the States lawyers did not
even pretend that the act passed by the
Legislature was constitutional and does
our esteemed friend Of the Dispatch mean
TO advance the idea that the Legislature
pretends when it goes into this tyrannical
method OF depriving citizens OF their
rights that it is acting justly, and under
the Constitution? We prefer vastly to
see the thing done boldly, and not with a
pretense Of according respect to the de-
cisions Of the Supreme Court
1t IS necessary again and again to say
that people who will use coupons do not
care a straw for the bondholdeas or their
cause or who they are, whether brokers,
spectators, or original holders of the
bonds 1t is with a great many people
question Of saging so per cent. in pay
ing taxes when they have a perfect right
to use the recognized obligations of the
State.
With many other people it is question
Of settling the debt question, and it will
be seen in very short time, as we pointed
out long ago. that numbers Of patriotic
citizens in Richmond will use coupons in
order TO discourage the policy which yir-
tually amounts to population.
Now, of course, the Dispatch and the
legislators can argue this question indeh-
nitely, but the facts WI beat all the srgu-
ing in the world II there had been a
sufficient amount Of sentiment against
coupons the use Of them would not be
on the increase. And as for the force
and persuasion of sentiment" in Vir-
ginia, it has been used to induce the very
reverse of duty.
There is no denying the character Of a
sentiment that calls for paying the debt,
and the contradiction is evident when
you teach people in the very same les
son to repudiae one obligation and hon
or another.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19

The Journal Of Commerce calls attention
10 the influence that the Government
Departments exercise in debating con-
gressional legislation. Were remember the
new departure under former Admins
trati0n in which chief clerk, the Post
master-General and his assistants being
absent. issued circular ordering that
the unpaid rate on every letter INSULT
GENTLY paid by the depositer should be
doubled and this two-fold amount be col
lected on its delivery The Postmaster
General was asked when he returned to
Washington to correct the error, but he
declined and Endorsed the action Of his
subordinate.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19

Twice durlug her life She lost control Of
her voice The first time while beer career
was only budding the second shortly after
the birth of her son while living no Dres-
den, i'm 1853 ON both occasions the voice
returned 90 her as it had departed and
both times It's presence was accidentally
discovered II As well known that she
became q singer at the remarkably early
ugc Of 10 years She had spent but one
year IN n music school Ia stockholm when
her debut was effected in the Court
theatre For two years She continued
% give promise Of great lyric career,
when the upper notes of her voice became
hard and she was forced into retirement.
For four years AN thought of q public life
was abandoned, when one evening she was
called upon TO fill an uuimportant role in
one of Meyerbeers operas by reason OF
the illness of the young woman To- whom
+, had been utrusted 10 tb.. accident
The fame Of Jenny Lind is due, for that
night she discovered that the sweetness
mo purity of her voice had returned, and
The next right she was invited TO sing
Agatha IN NOn Weber 'Fre.chufz 49,
Philadelphia Times.
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19

WAITING.
Here I must pause-the roads dIvrgs,

Here must pause-the roads divmge
And one, know. IA mine,
impatient heart. be still, nor urge
Thy heat, thy haste; my Fathers VIII
Is that wait. Lord take my will In thina
Lights beckOn DER one road, and one
Grows chill, and dark, and dim;
Joy for the heart glad work begun,
Hope. promise. blessing, gid the one,
And one is cold-O heart, trust thou 10 himi
mag not choose-thne are the ways,
Always lead up 10 thee
n sun or shade lay on my days
need not ask be thou my sun
And light my soul, till thy candle be-
What though hurni Thine is the fame.
Thine Is the air that feeds.
Soul OF my soul. thrice sacred name,
Where'er I go. where'er stay,
Through life, through death, thine be the hard
that leads
Mrs d II r. Goodale In Congregatlonol's
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-19

As to the law about unlawful assem-
blies which excites so much interest in
connection with the evil Of Anarchist
meetings and speeches, the principle is
very plain. Full liberty is allowed for
meetings, and full liberty Of speech, pro-
vided such opportunities be not unlaw-
fully used.
The point in those Anarchist meetings
is that they are used for unlawful pur-
poses, and the moment man abuses the
freedom allowed him to incite crime, that
moment the meeting that applauds him
becomes an unlawful assembly.